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BHF and UK DRI to create vascular dementia research centre

November 19, 2023
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) will establish the UK’s first research centre dedicated to finding new treatments for vascular dementia.

Newly launched firm secures £4.3 million seed funding to target drug-resistant bacteria

November 19, 2023
Glox Therapeutics, a company developing precision antibiotic therapies, has raised £4.3 million in seed funding to develop effective targeted therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

AI ‘nearly twice as accurate’ as biopsies at grading some sarcomas

November 6, 2023
Tests comparing artificial intelligence and standard biopsies revealed that AI had an 86% greater success rate than its competitor, suggests new research from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and...

First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker

October 23, 2023
Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imaging technique for early onset disease identification.

Preventing cells ‘hijack’ reverses drug resistance in prostate cancer

October 22, 2023
Advanced prostate cancer tumours can be prevented from hijacking myeloid white blood cells to help fuel their growth, re-sensitising the disease for treatment, suggests new research published in Nature.

Second malaria vaccine brings significant advance in scale

October 4, 2023
The development of a second effective malaria vaccine has been hailed as a significant step forward in the battle to combat the disease.

Funding for vaccine to tackle cause of UK pig herds’ major respiratory threat

September 9, 2023
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council are funding the Royal Veterinary College efforts to develop vaccines to tackle the most...

Nottingham uni spin-out secures UKRI £1 million for gene therapy tech

September 6, 2023
University of Nottingham spin-outTherageniX and collaborator the University of Nottingham, have been awarded a £995,000 grant from Innovate UK.

Joint study says earlier mental health care could save £600 million and improve 7 million lives 

September 4, 2023
Shortening treatment and waiting times for mental health conditions from 12 months to three months could reduce the financial burden on the NHS and improve treatment outcomes and therefore quality...

Low birthweight may directly increase later heart risk – study

August 27, 2023
Low birthweight should be added to the list of risks for heart disease, urges a research paper presented to the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2023.

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